Frank Davey ISBN 978-1-77126-053-4 $17.00 CDN/USA 132 pages In these mischievous poems about mischievously charming language, Frank Davey shows us how words can be more nimble than we are ourselves, how they take us places we may not have wanted to go, and how likely it is that you’ve already been there. ON FRANK DAVEY’S PREVIOUS […]
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Some Mornings
Nelson Ball ISBN 978-1-77126-057-2 $17.00 CDN/USA 90 pages In Some Mornings, Nelson Ball’s trademark minimalism takes on a new expansiveness. This is a book of both profound joy and mourning. In sharply observed poems about nature—and the nature of people—Ball offers an instruction manual on how to be in the world: how to see beauty in […]
Carafola
Christine Miscione ISBN 978-1-77126-049-7 $20.00 CDN/USA 238 pages Wretched, masochistic, beautiful, Carofola is a novel about the perils of life decisions; a spellbinding coming-of-age story that is a wild ride through the rapids of one woman’s hyper-aware consciousness. Whether navigating the depths of the hypothetical, or the heights of the real, or overcome with the paralysis […]
Cinematic Taxi
Corrado Paina ISBN 978-1-77126-065-7 $17.00 CDN/USA 64 pages In Cinematic Taxi, Corrado Paina revisits the poems of Hoarse Legend, first published in 2000. Those poems were an incisive critique of language and race that explored the themes of multicultural city life and personal and social identity. Now in Cinematic Taxi, Paina has returned with a simultaneous […]
Hamilton Launch of Spring Titles
Mansfield Press and Wolsak and Wynn are joining forces for a launch of our spring books. Featuring Mansfield authors Gary Barwin (Moon Baboon Canoe), Dani Couture (YAW) and David W. McFadden (Shouting Your Name Down the Well: Tankas and Haiku), and Wolsak and Wynn’s D.D. Miller, David Lee and James Brock. It is at Homegrown […]
Upcoming Readings and Latest News
READINGS WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 7 PM — WINDSOR Peter Norman (Water Damage) launches his new novel, Emberton, along with Micheline Maylor. Biblioasis, 1520 Wyandotte East. Free. WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 7:30 PM — OTTAWA Jason Camlot (What The World Said) reads with Gillian Sze and Janice Tokar at Pressed Café, 750 Gladstone Avenue. Free. THURSDAY, JUNE […]
Sue Goyette on David W. McFadden
Celebrated Halifax poet Sue Goyette, whose marvellous book Ocean has been shortlisted for the 2014 Griffin Poetry Prize, recently read at Ottawa’s VerseFest with David W. McFadden. Dave, of course, took last year’s Canadian Griffin for his collection What’s the Score? and is currently launching Shouting Your Name Down The Well: Tankas and Haiku (both […]
Gary Barwin Gets Inside Stephen Harper
Here’s a great video for a poem that appears in Gary Barwin’s brand new Moon Baboon Canoe.
Moon Baboon Canoe Trailer
Here is a little trailer for Gary Barwin’s Moon Baboon Canoe which will be launched in Toronto on April 9th at the Monarch Tavern.
Shouting Your Name Down The Well: Tankas and Haiku
David W. McFadden ISBN 978-1-77126-041-1 $20.00 CDN/USA 168 pages David W. McFadden is Genmai, prolific writer of haiku and tankas. He has been exploring these Japanese forms for six decades, and Shouting Your Name Down The Well is the first full-length collection of this work. The 500 or so poems in this lively volume comprise […]
